Snowden Vineyards Napa Valley Cabernet Franc Melchior Kemper Vineyard 2021 NO20231025 and fermentation starts on its

and fermentation starts on its own

This was the first one

a light delight

finely etched

Now run by son Théo

Snowden Vineyards Napa Valley Cabernet Franc Melchior Kemper Vineyard 2021 NO20231025 and fermentation starts on itsMelchior Kemper farmed this Napa ranch from 1881 to 1895. Today his name sits on 962 vines of Cabernet Franc planted at 800 feet in the Vaca Mountains. The Snowden family has stewarded the land since 1955, and the wines are made by third generation Diana Snowden Seysses, who spends half her year making wine at Burgundy's Domaine Dujac. That double life shows: native yeasts, restraint, and a flat refusal to chase generic Napa richness. This is